These stories reveal the iconic characters of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Merlyn, Lancelot, Mordred, and all the famed (and occasionally infamous) members of the Knights of the Round Table in their complexity and entirety from youth to old age.

In "Malory and the Death of Kings: The Politics of Regicide at Salisbury Plain," Lisa Robeson examines the civil war in Malory's Le Morte Darthur in its political context, smartly demonstrating how the decisions and actions of Arthur and Mordred represent "malfunctioning kingship on one hand and a perversion of kingship on the other" (137).

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